La Marquise is the world's oldest running automobile, as of 2011. It is an 1884 model made by Frenchmen De Dion, Bouton and Trépardoux. The car was a...
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Konstantin Somov (section Le Livre de la Marquise)
suggestive, some quite explicit, for multiple editions of Le Livre de la Marquise. The book is "an anthology of eighteenth century erotic French poetry...
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Madame de Brinvilliers (redirect from Marquise de Brinvilliers)
Marie-Madeleine d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers (22 July 1630 – 16 July 1676) was a French aristocrat who was accused and convicted of murdering her...
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was friends with d'Alembert, Rousseau and de Meilhan. The Souvenirs de la Marquise de Créquy is attributed to her but may be by Cousin de Courchamps. De...
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le destin, au milieu de la guerre" / "When fate, in the confusion of war, threw me, a baby, into their arms"). The Marquise is deeply moved, admits she...
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children were legitimised, and in 1675 Louis XIV granted her the title Marquise de Maintenon. By the late 1670s, she had essentially supplanted Montespan...
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Madame de Pompadour (redirect from Marquise de Pompadour)
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (/ˈpɒmpədʊər/, French: [pɔ̃paduʁ] ; 29 December 1721 – 15 April 1764), commonly known as Madame de Pompadour...
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Julie d'Aubigny (redirect from La Maupin)
appeared for the last time in La Vénitienne by Michel de La Barre (1705). After the death of her lover in 1705, Madame la Marquise de Florensac, with whom she...
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She has had over twenty plays produced including, I and You, Émilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight, Parts They Call Deep, and Background...
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Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (5 February 1626 – 17 April 1696), also widely known as Madame de Sévigné or Mme de Sévigné, was a French...
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The Marquise of O (German: Die Marquise von O...; French: La Marquise d'O...) is a 1976 historical drama film written and directed by Éric Rohmer, based...
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Émilie du Châtelet (redirect from Emilie de Breteuil, marquise du Chatelet)
Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (French: [emili dy ʃɑtlɛ] ; 17 December 1706 – 10 September 1749) was a French mathematician...
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Jeanne Agnès Berthelot de Pléneuf, marquise de Prie (August 1698 – 7 October 1727), was a French noblewoman who for a brief period exercised extraordinary...
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Esther Lachmann (French: [ɛstɛʁ laʃman]; better known as La Païva (French: [la paiva]); 7 May 1819 – 21 January 1884) was the most famous of the 19th-century...
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Madame de Montesson (redirect from Charlotte-Jeanne Beraud de la Haye de Riou, marquise de Montesson)
Genlis, the duchesse d'Abrantes and Mme de Levis; G Strenger, "La Société de la marquise de Montesson," in the Nouvelle revue (1902); J Turquan, Madame...
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HMS Dolphins Prize (redirect from La Marquise de Cavalaire)
the French privateer La Marquise de Cavalaire, captured by HMS Dolphin on 19 September 1757. "French Privateer snow 'La Marquise de Cavalaire' (1757)"...
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Victoire de Donnissan de La Rochejaquelein née marquise de Lescure (French pronunciation: [maʁi lwiz viktwaʁ də dɔnisɑ̃ də la ʁɔʃʒaklɛ̃]; 25 October 1772...
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film La Femme Nikita. Parillaud was born in Paris. While in school, she studied ballet but began her film career at 16 in Michel Lang's L'hôtel de la plage...
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technology derived from the bicycles of the era. 1884 De Dion Bouton "La Marquise" Quadricycle (Steam runabout) 1884 De Dion Bouton Victoria Quadricycle...
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Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles (redirect from Marquise de Lambert)
who on her marriage became Madame de Lambert, Marquise de Saint-Bris, and is generally known as the Marquise de Lambert, was a French writer and salonnière...
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2004 – July 25, 2004 Biltmore Theatre 2008 Les liaisons dangereuses La Marquise de Merteuil May 1, 2008 – July 6, 2008 American Airlines Theatre 2010–2011...
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(1000–1700) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. La Roque de Roquebrune, R. (1979) [1966]. "Le Febvre de la Barre, Joseph-Antoine". In Brown, George Williams...
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played the inexperienced lover who becomes the sex pawn of the pernicious La Marquise de Merteuil. Described as the "definitive battle of the sexes" by Broadway...
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includes the darkly erotic novels Monsieur Vénus (1884), La Marquise de Sade (1887), and La Jongleuse (1900). She also wrote a 1928 monograph on gender...
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La marquise de Brinvilliers is an operatic 'drame lyrique' that was written as a collaborative effort on the part of nine composers. It premiered in Paris...
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Express. Archived from the original on 4 June 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2016. La Marquise de Fontenoy (pseudonym of Marguerite Cunliffe-Owen), Chicago Tribune...
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Foster's Little Man Tate (1991) and The Birdcage (1996), Mike Nichols' remake of La Cage aux Folles. On television, her performance on the series Road to Avonlea...
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to Charles de La Valette. www.landrucimetieres.fr www.vam.ac.uk www.interieur.gouv.fr www.burkespeerage.com Bust of la Marquise de la Valette at the...
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‹ The template Infobox NFL biography is being considered for merging. › Marquise Hill (August 7, 1982 – May 28, 2007) was an American football defensive...
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The Marquise is a romantic comedy play by Noël Coward, written as a vehicle for Marie Tempest, who starred in the original 1927 production in London. Among...
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